Word information
Simplified番刀
Traditional番刀
Pinyinfān dāo
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Chinese word dictionary
番刀
fān dāo · type of machete used by Taiwan aborigines, worn at the waist in an open-sided scabbard
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刀dāo
knife; blade; single-edged sword; cutlass (CL:把[ba3]); (slang) (loanword) dollar; classifier for sets of one hundred sheets (of paper); classifier for knife cuts or stabs; (Internet slang) to bargain; to ask for a small discount (esp. on second-hand marketplaces); surname Dao
番茄fānqiétomato
剪刀jiǎndāoscissors; CL:把[ba3]
番fān(bound form) foreign (non-Chinese); barbarian; classifier for processes or actions that take time and effort; (classifier) a kind; a sort; (classifier) (used after the verb 翻[fan1] to indicate how many times a quantity doubles, as in 翻一番[fan1 yi1 fan1] "to double")
翻番fānfānto double; to increase by a certain number of times
三番五次sānfān-wǔcìover and over again (idiom)